Eyeglasses



Oct. 28, 1924, 1,513503 W. J. HERRMANN EIEGLASSES F'iled June 22. 1921 Patented ci. 28, 1924.

WALTHER J. HERR-MANN, O]? CINCINNATI, OHIO.

EYEG-LASSES.

Application fi1ed Inne 22, 1921.

T0 all whom 2'25 may cmwern:

Be it known that WALTHER J. HERRMANN, a citizen of tl1e Unitecl States 0f Amerioa, resicling at Cincinnati, in the county o:f Hamilton ancl State 0f Ohio, has invented new ancl useful Improvements in Eyeglasses, 0'f Which tl1e following is a specification.

The object of the invention is 150 provide a simple, inexpensive and eflicient construction of eye glass or spectacle frame or mounting With the primary purpose 01 reclucing the c0st of production and minirnizing the risk of breakage or displacement 01 the parts by eliminating joints which are clepending for their support upon the nse of screws ancl like fastening means; and witl1 this object in view the invention consists in a construction ancl combination of parts 0f Wh1C-ll a preierrecl ernborlirnent is shown in the accompanying clrawings, wherein F igure 1 is a front view of an eye glass 0r spectacle frarne ernbodying the inveniion.

Figure 2 is a plan view of the Same.

Figure 8 is a view 0f the blank showing che relation of the parts as the Same is stampecl from a sheet of metal.

The lens rings 10 are connected by a narr0w strip of material integral therewith ancl extending radially therefrom as shown at 11, the intermecliate portion of said strip being turned or twisted ab a right angle t0 the plane of the rings and the portions 0f the strip immecliately adjacent t0 the rings anal is loopecl 130 provide the nose piece 12 which may be temperecl to form a nose spring which thus is integral with the lens rings. The raclially projecting stems 11 1nay be crimped as shown t0 a greater 0r less extent to vary the spaeing of the lens rings which are fiangecl at tl1eir outer eclges as shown at 13 to form seats for the lenses.

Serial N0. 479,699.

This construction which as indicated in Figure 3 is adaptecl to be produced fro1n a single flat sheet of any suitable metal by the operation of stamping eliminates the use of j0ints either sololered 01 provicled with fastening 1neans such as screws 0r the like, and contemplates the necessary adjustment 0f any of the lens rings by the crimping of the stems 11 which are twisted and deflected to provicle the connecting extension which constitutes the nose piece. When the frarne is t0 be used for spectacles suitable ears 14 as shown in clotted lines in Figurel may be for1ned a1; the outer sides 01 the lens rings for the attachment of the temples wl1ich obviously must be pivotally mounted, but otherwise tl1e frarne is jointless and therefore one 0f the principal disadvantages of eye glass and. spectacle frames, to-wit the loosening of the joints, Ehe distortion of the nose piece ancl the like are avoided.

Having describeol the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is:

An eye glass fraine formed frorna blank struck fro1n sheet material comprising con tinuous rings adapted to receive lenses and lying substantially in the plane 01 alle material fro1n which the frame is struck, there being a nose loop dispose'xl between the rings and integrally joined therewith anol includ ing stem portions which are twistecl 0ut of the frame occupied by the rings and disposecl parallel thereto, ancl an intermediate loopecl portion adapted 130 briclge the nose and which is disposecl with its transverse breaclth a1; right angles to the plane in which Ehe lens rings lie.

In testimony whereof he afixes his signature.

WALTHER J. HERRMANN. 

